The mission of the Battle Creek Police Department is to promote community leadership within the department while maintaining a commitment to improving the community's quality of life through crime control and public safety while serving all people with fairness and respect."
Serving is the most important part of the familiar motto "To serve and protect." Serving consists of leading, educating, directing, role modeling, as well as protecting and a host of other requirements. Our department realizes that we are in an honored profession, which has a responsibility to the public to deliver excellence in police service.